^ Besides the name "Central Serbia", the term "Serbia proper" was also used in English to refer to the region. "Serbia proper" is simply an English translation of the Serbian term Uža Srbija (Ужа Србија), which was used as a name of the region during the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; the term was controversial and, due to that, Serbian government publications used Centralna Srbija (Central Serbia) instead. The term Uža Srbija was rejected because it implied a distinction between Serbia and its autonomous provinces. According to the Library of Congress, "Serbia Proper" denoted "the part of the Republic of Serbia not including the provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo; the ethnic and political core of the Serbian state."[2]
